Complex social and information network search becomes important with a variety of applications. In the core of these applications, lies a common and critical problem: Given a labe...
Arijit Khan, Nan Li, Xifeng Yan, Ziyu Guan, Supriy...
Text detection is fundamental to video information retrieval and indexing. Existing methods cannot handle well those texts with different contrast or embedded in a complex backgro...
Near-duplicate web documents are abundant. Two such documents differ from each other in a very small portion that displays advertisements, for example. Such differences are irrele...
A large number of online databases are hidden behind the web. Users to these systems can form queries through web forms to retrieve a small sample of the database. Sampling such h...
Anirban Maiti, Arjun Dasgupta, Nan Zhang, Gautam D...
A large part of the data on the World Wide Web is hidden behind form-like interfaces. These interfaces interact with a hidden backend database to provide answers to user queries. ...